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If it feels like school is an all-consuming slog, that's the feeling of fighting your brain -- which builds models, and has to consume and discard massive volumes of extraneous information. "This isn't extraneous!" It doesn't believe you, and you don't really believe you, either
I should note that there are (probably broadly trainable) strategies for massively improved rote memorization, but the very hacky way this works makes me very skeptical that information stored this way can be accessed for much more than basic call-and-response
The first sentence is just plain wrong. But the implied question, when fixed up, is a good one: what are the opportunity costs for SR? I've experimented intensively with this question in mind. AFAICT, SR is most useful when learning a little outside your expertise.
(1) Tangentially, we did lose something when we moved away from 'classical' education techniques, even if we weren't aware then what those things were. From Norman Doidge's excellent The Brain that Changes Itself:
(2) "For hundreds of years educators did seem to sense that children's brains had to be built up through exercises of increasing difficulty that strengthened brain functions. Up through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a classical education often included rote...
“only good for call-and-response” reminds me of feynman’s “no science is being taught in Brazil” speech http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education …
I've been wanting to learn more and test the effects of spaced-repetition techniques & software.
Rote memorization can be useful, and has a role in quickly training to competence in complex domains, *but only if you learn the habits needed to use that knowledge.* Otherwise it focuses energy on dead-end competition, undercuts actual learning, and gives false confidence.
I'm using Anki to simply recall numerous equations and concepts that I need to know for classes -- then I focus on the ones that matter and conceptualize them. I think the typical brute force student would seriously gain from spaced repitition flash cards, at least for good GPA
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